Farabundo Marti

Farabundo Marti (5 May 1893-1 February 1932) was a Salvadoran communist leader who was among the 10,000-40,000 Native American communists massacred by Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez's far-right dictatorship in La Matanza of 1932.

Biography
Farabundo Marti was born in Teotepeque, El Salvador in 1893, and he dropped out of college after becoming a communist and decided to become a full-time revolutionary. In 1920, he was exiled for his activities, but he returned in 1925 and began working with Nicaraguan revolutionary Augusto Cesar Sandino. In 1931, he started a guerrilla revolt of indigenous farmers against the dictator Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez, culminating in the President's massacre of up to 40,000 Native American peasants in 1932. Marti was captured, tried, and then executed by firing squad that same year. The Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) was named for him.